"breaking out through nerves"
Bourgeois, Martin, Dickinson, Freud, Christle, Dugan
Louise Bourgeois:
Agnes Martin:
Emily Dickinson:
Death warrants are supposed to be / An enginery of equity / A [hazardous] merciful mistake / A pencil in an [dainty] Idol’s Hand / A Devotee has  [cool—bland] oft consigned To Crucifix or / [stake] Block
Sigmund Freud:
America is a mistake—a gigantic mistake it’s true, but still a mistake.
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